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Advanced Tips for PLEX Matching! STREAMLINE and FUTURE PROOF Your Library!

Advanced Tips for PLEX Matching! STREAMLINE and FUTURE PROOF Your Library!

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Timestamps at bottom! Wanna know how to add and organize different releases of the same movie? These are called Editions and you can tag a media file as being a specific Edition at the file name level. NOTE that Editions are a PLEX PASS feature and not available without one! Want to store different technical VERSIONS of your media files on your server and not rely on PLEX transcoding your files? You can! Do you have some complex or obscure media that doesn't line up with the databases PLEX matches your files against? Two ways you can help PLEX out matching your tv and movies! These methods are ways to streamline PLEX matching your media to the correct info/artwork in databases and allow for you to easily move your media to new drives/servers without relying on a plex database backup.

Things mentioned:
- Artwork Pack for PLEX Collections: https://animalcrackerart.gumroad.com/
- PLEX: https://www.plex.tv/
- PlexMatch File Generator: https://github.com/johnkiddjr/PlexMatch-File-Generator/
PLEX Related Subs: - https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/
- https://www.reddit.com/r/PlexPosters/
- https://www.reddit.com/r/PlexPrerolls/

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:28 Multiple Releases of Movies (PLEX PASS FEATURE)
04:38 Multiple Technical Versions of Media Files
06:30 NFO and Title Matching for Movies
08:55 .plexmatch files to aid in TV Show matching
13:31 PlexMatch File Generator
15:44 Promo/Outro